Dressage assembly raises extra questions than solutions, plus different issues the horse world is speaking about

Worldwide dressage stakeholders assembly

The Worldwide Dressage Riders Membership, Worldwide Dressage Trainers Membership, Worldwide Dressage Officers Membership and Dressage Organisers met on 5-6 November to debate a spread of subjects together with a evaluate of the Paris Olympics, using synthetic intelligence in judging, an FEI replace on its dressage technique and challenges dealing with CDI organisers. Though the media weren’t allowed to attend the assembly, there was a press convention the day after throughout which vital questions on welfare issues and tips on how to regain the general public’s belief within the sport have been raised by journalists, giving rise to some sudden responses.

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Becky Moody on social media

In an unique interview, accessible solely to H&H subscribers, Paris Olympic crew bronze medallist Becky Moody has taken a glance again on her journey to the highest and mirrored on the highs, lows, and classes she’s learnt alongside the way in which.

Becky Moody pictured at her dwelling base in Sheffield. Credit score: Steve Dawe

With reference to social media, Becky instructed H&H dressage editor Oscar Williams: “It’s one of many issues that frustrates me essentially the most concerning the sport in the mean time. I’m fairly ineffective on socials in some methods, however I do at all times attempt to be myself – for me, that’s actually vital. And presently, I’m having a extremely beautiful time on social media, it’s been a extremely supportive, and constructive place for me – nevertheless it hasn’t at all times been.”

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A home on the market with an uncommon historical past

A 3-bed indifferent home with stabling and grazing for 2 horses, plus an uncommon again story, is available on the market for £600,000. The home was used as a part of a 1907 social experiment carried out by the Each day Mail newspaper. The experiment sought to see how possible it will be for households residing in burgeoning city areas to desert life as they knew it and begin a brand new one within the nation. Readers utilized for the prospect to dwell and work on the farm in rural Lincolnshire; candidates needed to be residing in a city, and the much less expertise of nation life that they had, the higher. The profitable applicant gained the chance to dwell and work from the then 14-acre farm, free from lease or prices for a interval of three years – longer in the event that they made successful of it.

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Carol is an skilled journalist and editor, who can also be a passionate beginner rider and devoted horse proprietor, having ridden since childhood. She has a specific curiosity within the emotional well-being and moral coaching of horses, alongside veterinary issues, having garnered intensive first-hand expertise of quite a few equine well being situations by means of greater than 30 years of horse possession.